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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"fairtrade"”.
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'We're all Fairtrade consumers now!? An exploration of the meanings, moralities and politics of Fairtrade consumption
The Fairtrade movement in the UK has witnessed impressive growth over the last ten years. Fairtrade products are now available beyond the dedicated network of church halls and Oxfam shops and through the mainstream retail sector. Whilst this growth has been widely represented as the result of …
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Accounting for Sustainable Livelihoods: The dialectic between Fairtrade and Biodiversity
… Alternative Trade Organizations (ATOs) such as Fairtrade. The framework within accounting for biodiversity has not considered the loss in biodiversity and the potential role played by agricultural biodiversity in providing sustainable livelihoods. Further, studies about Fairtrade’s …
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Hemmed in: The geography of organic fairtrade cotton in Burkina Faso
Conventional cotton growing in Burkina Faso is unsustainable. It is characterized by low incomes for most smallholder growers, dependence on expensive agro-chemical inputs, and male bias across the sector. By contrast, the Helvetas organic cotton program in many cases improves rural livelihoods …
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The balancing test: Is fairtrade cotton a sustainable policy for improving the livelihoods of Indian cotton producers?
<p>This thesis determines if Fairtrade cotton can improve the livelihoods of cotton farmers in India. Interviews with Fairtrade cotton farmers and local staff members of a Fairtrade cotton organization provide insightful data on Fairtrade cotton. Results reveal that Fairtrade cotton contributes to …
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Global niche markets and local development : clientelism and fairtrade farmer organizations in Paraguay's sugar industry
… smallholders' labor-intensive production, and Fairtrade certification explicitly attempts to leverage globalization for smallholder development. Paraguay's smallholder sugarcane farmers have been the unlikely beneficiaries of these new global market niches, as the world's largest exporters of …
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Impacto de la certificación Fairtrade en la exportación de organizaciones de productores de café en la Región San Martín, Perú
Esta tesis analiza a la certificación Fairtrade, a fin de determinar su impacto en la exportación de organizaciones de caficultores de la región San Martín en Perú; una región que destaca en la producción de café a nivel nacional, donde los pequeños productores enfrentan múltiples desafíos para …
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Exploring whether learning can contribute towards sustainable development : a case study of a social enterprise in the clothing and textile industry in the Western Cape
… towards Sustainable Development by focusing on a Fairtrade registered social enterprise, named Shanti (pseudonym). Shanti was founded to provide unemployed and marginalised women with an opportunity to earn a living through establishing sewing cooperatives. The cooperatives are women’s worker …
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Growing pains: scale and mission in the fair trade textile sector
… the Apparel and Linens Program, launched by FairTrade USA. I argue that this expansion in the scale of production results in a dilution of fair trade’s commitment to improve the livelihoods of producers. To illustrate this argument, I first draw upon Polanyian and Marxist theories in order to …
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Análisis de la comercialización de vinos en restaurantes para la Cooperativa Agrícola Vitivinícola Loncomilla en la Región Metropolitana
… como el de la Cooperativa Loncomilla y el sello Fairtrade (comercio justo), entre otros, tanto en los restaurantes como en los estudiantes encuestados. Los resultados indican una disposición a pagar por vinos de la Cooperativa, especialmente aquellos de la cepa Carignan, vinos reserva y gran …
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Avaliação de uma associação de produtores para a certificação de café
… avaliadas os modelos de certificação PIC e Fairtrade são adequados para esta associação.
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Certificación de miel mediante un sello de calidad. Un estudio a nivel del productor en el partido de Balcarce
… acceder al sello de calidad de Comercio Justo (Fairtrade), el cual proporciona un precio mínimo o precio sostén para la miel que se comercialice por vía de la mencionada certificación. A través de encuestas y entrevistas realizadas entre junio 2020 y abril 2021 a más de la mitad del total de …
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Enacting standards in organic agriculture
… labels, like those signifying organic or Fairtrade status. It examines how the voluntary product standards that underpin such labels are enacted through the everyday practices of producing, certifying and marketing farmed produce. This qualitative study of the enactment of organic …
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ON THE ROLE AND USE OF INFORMATION IN ETHICAL CONSUMERISM
… focused on one metric of ethical consumption (Fairtrade) in the areas of chocolate and coffee purchasing and compares this data to measures of relative income and educational deprivation. The comparison highlights the role of education deprivation as a predictive factor in ethical consumption. …